Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

GPU has fallen off the bus. I hope it didn't get injured. #linux #YearOfThePenguin #nvidia

The Engrish in the Gundemoniums trophy descriptions is pretty painful. Tonight I picked up, "TRAPEZIUM Never loosen the hand is not."

It seems that the city hasn't measured this since 5 years ago, but at the time the local tap water was slightly radioactive. Not as radioactive as a banana and nowhere near EPA limits, but a tiny bit of alpha and a little more beta.

My sister made it impossible for me to work on the stuff that I was planning on doing today (hard to focus your senses in the presence of paint fumes) so I did server maintenance instead.

A while back my Vita turned into a brick (won't charge, won't turn on). Replacement arrived today but themes don't seem to have survived the move.

Should my coffee roasters get fediverse bot accounts? Someone suggested that we should post what we roasted that day and my thoughts are:

1. Isn't there enough spam in the universe already?
2. The oldest stuff in my shop is still fresher than what you'll get elsewhere locally and if too many people are buying out of order it makes keeping things that way harder.

Did a coffee tasting with the latest hire. What I like to do for a first formal tasting is similar roast levels of an African coffee, an American coffee, a coffee from somewhere in the Pacific, and then the same coffee as one of those taken to a darker roast. Future tastings can build on that experience, but the idea is to give people a basic framework for thinking about how coffees taste and get some of the key vocabulary with a sensory experience.

I think I'm done sending thank you notes for a while. Would be glad to be wrong about that.

There's a guy who uses the coin counter at my credit union and I've now seen him break the machine twice because he keeps bringing in a couple thousand dollars in coins and I think the machine just gets full. Where he's routinely getting thousands of dollars in random change, I don't know.

Time to hug the cat

Remember the company I was complaining about their taking stuff out of the manufacturer case packs and sending the product in 4x the packaging materials? They stopped doing that for the latest shipment. Now they're taking the stuff out of the manufacturer case packs, individually bagging the bottles, and putting them in a competing brand's case pack, but splitting it so it's not even full cases but like 10 bottles of one thing, 2 of another, and the reverse in a different box.

Time for some sample roasting

My dentist has added a couple little arcade machines to the lobby. A Pac-Man and an Asteroids/Centipede. Free to play.

cats are shaped like a friend

The 4K remaster of Star Ocean The Last Hope looks really good, but there are a couple areas where I wish they also reconsidered some control choices.

Pay check for the last class I taught arrived in the mail today. Also the water bill which, because it now has something that used to be on the property tax bill, will use most of that.

The batches I roasted during the field trip passed QA. I chose a coffee with wide tolerance because it's hard to control a roast and deliver a lecture at the same time.

Quintessence is just a fancy word for Boron. Send toot.

It won't be available at launch, but I kind of want to do an app version of the book I'm writing in addition to the print and ebook editions. This is exactly the sort of thing that could benefit from interactive elements that shipping it as a program would enable. For example, you could enter data from the machine calibration exercises and be able to see the graphs as they'd appear had the batches been roasted on your machine. There are lots of little things like that to make the case.